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lives wished to know what the outside of the 

 creature looked like, and as Mr. Townsend 

 had been at Ward's establishment in Roches- 

 ter when the first copy of the Stuttgart resto- 

 ration was made, he rose to the emergency, 

 and made a sketch. This was taken ashore, 

 together with a copy of the cut of the skele- 

 ton that was laboriously made by an Innuit 

 sprawled out at full length on the deck. Now 

 the Innuits, as Mr. Townsend tells us, are 

 great gadabouts, making long sledge journeys 

 in winter and equally long trips by boat in 

 summer, while each season they hold a regular 

 fair on Kotzebue Sound, where a thousand or 

 two natives gather to barter and gossip. On 

 these journeys and at these gatherings the 

 sketches were no doubt passed about, copied, 

 and recopied, until a large number of Innuits 

 had become well acquainted with the appear- 

 ance of the mammoth, a knowledge that natu- 

 rally they were well pleased to display to any 

 white visitors. Also, like the Celt, the Alas- 

 kan native delights to give a " soft answer," 

 and is always ready to furnish the kind of in- 

 formation desired. Thus in due time the news- 



